Enemies who, through their conjurors & at the instigation of the Devil, they believe cause every misfortune which can befall them such as famine sickness & Death[.] This man of function never travels without his Bag of holy unction which he carries about with much revelential awe as it contains all the apparatus of his art and among the rest a Cub Bear skin painted a bark Dish and some other trash to which he attaches superstitious notions and which he dedicates to Kawabapishit.

Of all animals the Bear is regarded with the greatest reverence & respect among the Nascapees. The skin of the first Cub they kill in the hunting season being stript entire from the Carcass is stuffed with hay and the head & paws decorated with beads quills and Vermillion[.] The Blood Entrails & flesh are next cooked and all the people of the horde are invited to partake of it in honor of Kawabapishit to whose paternal Bounty they owe the luscious meal. In the center of the feast the

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